The Moonchild

Author’s Note: This very short dramatic work was originally published by The Hooghly Review. Additionally, in their rejection of the…

Helpless Devil of the Mind

Reading: Armadale by Wilkie Collins / Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot / Everyman Pocket Poets: Art and Artists “Beware of…

The Husk of a Dozen Moths

We pulled the cap off that once quiet evening and choked on its medicine. The leg bone came popping out…

Ogygia

Nobody can save me. Not from myself, nor the elements. Thunder electrocutes my heart. Utterly barbecued —The grill marks resemble…

Vampires in the Closet: Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’

Author’s Note: This is an academic article I wrote on Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market.

In Anticipation of the Roo-Crew

Sally Rooney’s first novel, Conversations With Friends, begins with the lacklustre, “Bobby and I first met Melissa at a poetry night…

There’s Womb at the Inn

Ten years ago, I was sitting in my media studies class, buzzing with the urge to run away. I had…

Mining the Red Wheelbarrow

so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens —The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams When I…

They Don’t Pack Light, Do They?

Hen sat at the bus shelter in a blueberry coat with a tissue tucked in the right sleeve. Her carer…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Journey into Folk Horror: Young Goodman Brown (1835)

First published anonymously in the April 1835 edition of The New England Review, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown is considered…